Passenger pigeons once numbered in the billions

3:22 PM,
May 10, 2014

Passenger pigeons were once very plentiful in the United States.

Written by

Jim Knickelbine

We spend a lot of time and resources studying motivation. For different reasons, almost all of us want to convince people to do something. Perhaps purchase a product, or maintain a tradition, preserve beauty, treat people differently - all start with the establishment of motivation to affect a behavior.

Cultivating motivation to protect the environment runs in the same vein. There are many reasons to do so - preserve the beauty of nature, preserve our own health, sustain populations of wild animals to harvest for food or enjoyment, maintain wild systems so that they can be studied and better ...